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The problem with wealth-by-level in 3e and 4e was that this wealth directly correlated with personal power by way of magic items. 13k gp...

I'm not saying 3e was anywhere near perfect, but at least it was consistent in its complexity. (And don't forget how that mass bull's...

10 minutes for a combat seems extremely fast for anything that (a) uses a battle map and (b) is more interesting than "there's an orc in...

I would not mind a weapon breakage subsystem introduced in a Dark Sun campaign book, because metal weapons are rare. That could be fun...

Yes, it's subjective, but considering the number of people who aren't playing it with 20 rounds of fighting per day I think I have some...

True. That doesn't make it a good choice, though. Attrition-based adventuring was an issue back in 3e (which had a similar set of...

It's not an issue in the same way that a hole in the floor in your home isn't an issue. I mean, you know it's there, and you can easily...

This is the point that always gets lost in THAC0 arguments. They often come down to trying to measure just how difficult/easy or complex...

Things like Battlemaster maneuvers and whatever equivalent limited resource other subclasses have.

There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves...

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The big hint is the back copy on the original Exalted book, which starts "Before there was a World of Darkness, there was an age of...

For the record, I think it's worth it to separate "actual sequels" where the game and/or setting is fundamentally different from...

That is correct.